Process of making a medicinal composition.



' Medicinal Composition,

JOHN C. SLACK, OF CLAYTON, TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO.

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I Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed July 12-, 1907. Serial No. 8 88 ,480.

Patented May 26, 1908.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I JOHN C. SLACK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Clayton, in the county of Union and Territory of New Mexico, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Process of Making a ing is a specification.

My invention is a new composition of matter forthe treatment of catarrh and for purifying the blood.

My composition consists of several ingredien'ts having healing and curative roperties, combined with a preparation ma e from the mountain sage and as Sierra salute. This plant is a powerful tonic and alterative, and 1H making the above named preparation take both the roots and the top parts of the plant, burn them to ashes and then mix the ashes'withrain alcohol in'the proportion of one half Ton of alcohol to eachgallpn' of ashes. T is mixture or preparation is then percolated or strained and combined with the following ingredients in the proportion stated, viz:

Alcoholic extract of the ash of Artemisiafrigidan fl 24 grains Iodin--- 8grains Iodid of p0tash 12 grains Glycerin 24 grains Distilled water; 412 grains Theseingredients are thoroughly mingled I by agitation and they produce a wine colored preparation free from sediment which is exof which the followplant Artemisia frigida also known as.

ceedingly effective in the treatment of catarrh' in all of its forms and which is excellent as a blood purifier. and system renovater. As above stated the. lant Arte-misia, rigida is a powerful tonic an alterative, whi e the iodid of potash is used for softening the inflamed tissues and the removal of exudations, and the .iodin is used as a general excitant of the vital actions of the absorbent and landular systems. The alcohol is used simp y to prepare the Artemisia frigida and the glycerin is used named ingredients.

The composition is taken internally-immediately after meals-and the usual dose for an adult is one teaspoonful in a glass full of watiir. The dose for children from 4 to 8 years 0 a e and for' children from 8 to 12 years from 10 to 30 drops in awine glass full of water.

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I- claim: r

The herein described rocess, of making a medicinal composition or the treatment of catarrh, consistin in burning the entire plant Artemisq'a, fmgida, forming an alcoholic extract of the resultant ash and mixing therewith iodin, potassium iodid, lycerin and water, substantiallp as describe In testimony whereo I hereunto afiix my signature-in the presence of two witnesses.

- H Witnesses: Y CLAUDE F. DALY,

F. P. Imus-Er."

as an assistant in combining the above It 7 1 should never be taken upon an empty stom- N o. SLACK. 

